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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23,1916. Established 1891
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Colston Clippings.
l?v, Colston. Nov. 21.?The annual
- Thanksgiving services at Colston
Branch church will be held as usual
on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 30th, at
11:30 a. m. A programme will be
rendered by the Sunday-school, after
which the pastor, Rev. Walter Black,
will deliver an address. Dinner will
^ be served on the grinds. Come and
^ enjoy the service'with us.
Miss Dora McMillan, of Bamberg,
spent last week-end at home, bringing\'ith
her as her guest Miss Vista
Brabhanh
Misses Ethel Logan and Mary
Clayton and Mr. Sammie Clayton
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with Miss Nelle Clayton, of the
Spring Branch section.
Miss Fannie Lou Free, of the
Spring Town section, spent Saturday
2 night and Sunday with Miss Reba
Williams.
Mrs. Ogreta Beard, who has been
spending some time with relatives at
Schofield, returned home last week.
Mrs. Tho's. Clayton and Miss Sadie
Boyd spent Saturday in Olar with
Mrs. C. B. Ray.
, Mrs. J C. Beard and children and
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\ Miss Evelyn Kirkland spent last
week-end with Mrs. Laurie Copeland.
Oak Grove School News.
The following is the honor roll of
- Oak Grove school for the second
^month:
Eighth grade?Polly Carter.
Seventh grade?Thelma Rentz.
Sixth grade?Alva Hoffman, Lewis
Copeland, Carolyn Rentz.
Fifth grade?Eugene Carter, Williams
Carter.
The highest average was made by
Alva Hoffman. His total average
was 96. The next two were Polly
Carter and Lewis Copeland, their average
being 94.
We have organized a literary society
with the following as officers:
President, Thelma Rentz; vice president,
Alva Hoffman; secretary, Lewis
Copeland; treasurer, Carolyn Rentz.
Several meetings have been held. It
is now expecting to give the play of
"Scrubtowm Sewing Circle," on
Thanksgiving night. The play will
be given free v*d the public will be
welcome.
Oak Grove Greetings.
Oak Grove, Nov. 20.?We have
been having some frost for the past
few days.
Mr. Willie carter is spending some
time with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
B. H. Carter.
Miss Bertha Kinard spent the
week-end with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. W. Kinard.
Mrs. C. C. Smith happened to a
painful accident last Friday. Her
horse ran away and threw her out of!
the buggy and ran over her.
Miss Lonie Copeland spent last
Saturday night with Miss Grace Hoffman.
Mrs J. C. Beard and children and
Miss Evelyn Kirkland, of the Colston
section, spent last Friday night with
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Copeland.
Mrs. J. L. Rentz, of Columbia, tg
spending some time with her fatherin-law,
Mr. I. W. Rentz.
Miss Mamie Copeland and her two
brothers, J. W., Jr., and Lewis Copeland,
dined with their grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Copeland.
Mr. John Miley and family, of
Lodge, motored to Mr. I.:"W. Rentz's
last Sunday afternoon.
There will be a play at Oak Grove
hmica An Thanlroori'vinc nicht
3VUUU1 uuuou U11 1 uuuno^iT
beginning at 7:30. The public is
cordially invited.
Spring Branch Sparkles.
Spring Branch, Nov. 21.?Sugar
boilings! Sugar boilings! They are
"all the go" at present and, oh! such
a sweet, sticky time as the farmers
are having! But everybody seems
to enjoy it, so what does it matter
if they do get "stuck up?" The
young folks have been having and are
expecting merry times while "cane
grinding" is in season. Only last
night we were invited to attend a
sugar boiling at Mr. T. J. Crider's,
but on arriving there we found that
the "sugar boiling" was completed
in the afternoon and they were having
a party. All enjoyed it and no
one regretted that there was no syrup
to cook, as juice was plentiful.
Mrs. Georgianne Padgett has returned
to her home at Denmark af
ter an extended visit to her daugh,
ter, Mrs. E. M. Zeigler.
I Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Sandifer and
children, of Denmark, are visiting
the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.
J. Crider.
Little Miss Mildred Smoak was delighted
to have as her guest Sunday;
Miss Lottie Crider. ^
Misses Ethel Logan and Mary
Clayton and Mr. Sammie Clayton,
of Colston, visited at the home of
j Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Herndon SaturI
Hnv rnVht nnrl Sunrlav This trio of !
! young people was given a hearty welcome
by the community, as quite ai
number of young people gathered at!
Mr. Herndon's Saturday night for a
party. This being a jolly crowd, everybody
enjoyed the few hours of
merriment and regretted that time
passed to rapidly. We hope that our
Colston visitors will pay us another
visit in the near future.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Crider and little
Emvrtle spent Sunday with Mrs.
Crider's mother, Mrs. Emma Goodwin.
Mr. Charlie Goodwin spent Saturday
Tiieht at Mr. H. W. Herndon's
with Mr. Sammie Clayton.
Mr. Hansford O'Quinn xyas a visitor
in the home of Mr. T. J. Crider
Sunday.
Miss Eula O'Quinn spent today at
Mr. T. J. Crider's.
Miss Minnie Crider's spend-the-day
guest Sunday was Miss Xorine Canada.
Miss Dottie Goodwin was a visitor
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. W.
Herndon Sunday.N.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Scnwarting and little
Hughie Hutto,' Miss Viola Sandifer
and little Lether and Masters
John and Wesley Sandifer were
omnnor tVia wieifrtrc at Dran CO Till rsr
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test week during the fair.
Mr. Mayfield Bessinger was the
guest of Mr. H. C. Herndon last Sunday.
Miss Lessie Sandifer, of Bamberg,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lige Goodwin.
Mr. Eddie Zeigler and family visited
Mr. Tom McElhaney Sunday.
The following is the honor roll of
Pine Grove school: First grade, Ivy
Patrick; second grade, Fay Patrick;
sixth grade, Edith Hutto; eighth
grade, Minnie Crider, Lottie Crider,
Monroe Crider and J. D. Patrick.
Hunter's Chapel Happenings.
Hunter's Chapel, Xov. 21.?Miss
Susie Edwards, of Batesburg, spent
the week-end at the home of Mr. J.
H. Fender.
Rev. S. B. Felder preached his last
sermon before conference at Zion
Sunday.
Mr. J. H. A. Carter and family, of
the Bethany section, attended church
at Zion Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Rhoad and son,
D. L., and Mr. Rhoad's mother, Mrs.
Mell Rhoad, spent Sunday in this
vicinity.
Mrs. C. S. Herndon spent last week
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. King,
of Cameron.
Mr. and Mrs. King, and son, Leon,
and daughter, Wilmer, spent Sunday
here.
Among those attending the Orangeburg
fair from this neighborhood
were: Messrs. J. Hand, X. H. Fender,
and J. G. Rhoad, Clifton and
Katherine Rhoad, Mrs. S. P. Rentz,
Ralph Rentz, A. W., W. I., and Roy
Hunter, Robby Barris, and many
: others.
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.uon i iorget ine piay, a iie x^iupement
of Ellen," at Hunter's Chapel
school house Friday night, November
24th. REMITLO.
Schofield Sketches.
Schofield, Nov. 20.?We had several
killing frosts the past week,
which were welcomed very much by
every one.
Mr. F. G. P. Weigand and family ,
and Mr. F. M. Elliott motored over
to Bamberg Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Peeples and little son, of Estill,
visited her son here last Sunday.
Mr. F. M. Elliott has purchased an
automobile.
Mr. Robt. W. Schofield, of Philadelphia,
arrived here today. He will
be here for several days.
Mr. James L. Owen spent Sunday
in Savannah.
Messrs. H. T. Kearse and Laurie
I Reid went out hunting one day last
week and bagged forty-one quail.
Good luck boys.
Mr. D. W. Phillips, of Bamberg,
was here yesterday. DRAEBLR.
Elirhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, Nov. 21.?"The frost is
on the pumpkin, the corn is shock-'
ed." The weather man got busy thej
first of last week and gave us a good
. "shower," and then since, such cold.. 1
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
.Mary Frances Richardson, 4-yearold
daughter of R. C. Richardson, of
Greenville, was burned to death last
week when her dress caught on fire.
Eldred Hubbard, aged 14, a messenger
boy of Columbia, received a
broken arm last week when the wheel
which he was riding was struck by
an automoble.
George Couch, a delivery boy of
Spartanburg, was seriously injured
Monday, when he fell from a motorcycle
which he was riding, breaking
his leg and suffering internal injuries.
McDuffie Hampton, Frank, Shealy
and John Richards, members of the
State railroad commission, attended
a meeting ol' the National Association
of Railroad Commissioners in W&shineton
last week.
Chief of Police McGill, of Iva, Anderson
county, was accidentally shot
and seriously wounded last week
when his revolver fell from its holster
and was discharged. The bullet
penetrated his left breast.
Following an argument over a bill
of chickens, Lewis J. Rolins, a produce
merchant of Florence, shot Nick
Zegiares, a Greek restaurant manager,
in the leg in that city last week.
The Greek is not badly injured.
The ninth annual conference of
the board of Charities and Corrections
was held in Charleston, last
week. Rev. Dr. K. G. Finlay, of
Columbia, was reelected president
and Aiken was selected as the place
ror noicung me uexi auuuai cuuieience.
Declaring that they were adulterated,
five hundred and fifty cases of tomatoes
were ordered forfeited in the
United States district court in Columbia,
last week. The tomatoes, which
were shipped from Barnwell to Charleston,
were seized by government
agents. jF"
In a fight Monday nehr Gaffney,
Dover Morgan cut his brother, Gresham,
in the face and head. The you^g
man almost bled to cteath before -he
could be taken to a physician. The
cause of the difficulty is not known.
The young man has a good chance to
recover.
The governor has received an inquiry
from the Cuban-American society,
inquiring if he and his staff
would accept an invitation to visit
Cuba along with executives of other
States and prominent Americans. The
trip would be made on a warship of
the Cuban republic.
Isaac Bonds, a young white man
of Anderson county, was shot near
Antreville, last week while out hunting.
In company with several other
friends he attempted to cross a ditch
when the hammer of his gun caught
and the weapon was fired, the load
taking effect in his stomach.
Former United States Judge William
H. Brawley died in Charleston,
early Wednesday morning. He served
in congress before his appointment
to the federal bench by President
Cleveland in IS94. He was
born in Chester. He is survived by
a widow, two daughters and a son.
A United States supreme court order
last week refused to review decisions
of South Carolina federal
courts, and established title of the
Highland Park Manufacturing company
to the land on which the mill
is built. The order in effect dismisses
adverse title claims of E. G. Steele
and other heirs of John G. Steele.
Last Wednesday morning was the
first frost of this season and every
morning since everything has been
white with Mr. Jack Frost, also
plenty of ice. This sudden change
from the warm weather that we have
had all the fall makes it feel colder
than it really is. Anyway, the ladies
can now wear and show their winter
wearing apparel and be comfortable.
Quite a crowd visited the Orangeburg
county fair from here last week,
as follows: Capt. and Mrs. J. M.
Dannelly, Harry Ehrhardt, Lerov
Peters. C. C. Moore, W. R. Ramsey,
Stacy Kearse, Mr. and Mrs. E. D.
Grant, and Misses Clinkscales and
Spradley. All enjoyed the trip (both
ways) and had a fine time at the
fair.
The Ehrhardt high school basket
ball team defeated the Olar team on
their court last Friday afternoon in
a fast and exciting game. Olar can
play good ball, but the Ehrhardt team
! proved to be much stronger.
Born to Mr. and .Mrs. J. H. Kinard
last week a fine baby girl; imagine
the smile that the judge is wearing.
The Carolina Gin Co. seems to be
getting a lot of rest these days; no
cotton to gin. They only run two
days out of each week and not busy
then. The cotton crop was about as
good this year as it was last, but beI
ing much earlier and good weather
for picking it was soon all gathered
[ and over with.
Everybody is busy now cooking
| syrup. The youngsters are naving
the time of their lives drinking juice,
I chewing cane, and eating candy. The
; wife and mother is busy bottling and
| jarring up the "lasses" while it is
hot and storing away for next summer's
use, while the old man walks
around with his eyes on the barrel of
skimmings. Thinks, says he, "I will
have some 'soo-cat' probably for 'me'
and the parson."
.Mrs. R. A. Owens's dwelling was
completely destroyed by fire last
Sunday afternoon between seven
and eight o'clock. Mrs. Owens had
just completed preparing the evening
meal when she discovered the j
fire up in the loft of the Kitcnen dv
the stove flue, then a small blaze,
and could have been easily extinguished,
but owing to its location no
one could get to it, so all help was
turned to saving the contents. Practically
everything in the house was
saved. It is understood that some
insurance was carried on the building.
The house was built during
the time that the old Ehrhardt saw
mill was running and was made of
prime long leaf yellow pine lumber
and it sure was some fire. Owing
to the good fortune that no wind
was blowing all the surrounding
buildings were saved, although one
of J. M. Dannelly & Co.'s houses, occupied
by Mr. E. D. Grant, had a
close call.
Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Lemacks are
moving down to Ashepoo, where Mr.
Lemacks will be engaged as a fisher"
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man on tne Asnepoo river. uoou
luck to you, old friend.
Messrs. Harry E. Copeland and
Roy W. Kearse motored up to
Orangeburg Sunday to visit their
"sweethearts" and talk about the
cold weather. Harry says his girl is
,the "pretiest." JAMES.
Buford Bridge Budget,
Buford Bridge, Nov. 21.?The cold
weather is welcomed greatly. Everything
is beginning to look more like
'winter.
Mr. Roscoe Kearse has opened a
business in Olar.
Messrs. Henry Kearse and Clyde
Kearse, of Bamberg, and Misses Cleo
Kearse and Doris Hutto, of Carlisle
school, and Miss Lena Kearse, of
Olar, spent Sunday at Mr. J. B.
Kearse's.
Mrs. Jonn Smith's motner, or Virginia,
is spending a while in this
community.
Mrs. Charles Reynolds and son,
Charles Wilton, spent last week in
Walterboro.
Master Robert Alfred Kirkland, of
Varnville, is visiting Master Will
Kirkland.
Everybody come to the school
house Friday night, Nov. 24, and see
Miss Arabella Elizabeth Cornelia
Johnston Magdeline Long and Mr.
Jack Short married.
A few folks from here attended
the Orangeburg county fair.
"BOAGUS."
To Correspondents.
The Herald's correspondents are
doing fine. We are printing more
country news letters and better let
ters than have ever been printed in
this county before. We wish to thank
our correspondents. But we believe
that there ought to be still more letters.
And some of our correspondents
are not regular. Remember, The
Herald is willing and anxious to
print the news from every section of
the county, and we will promise our
correspondents if they will write the
news we will get it into print, if we
have to leave something else out. In
fact, The Herald stands ready to fill
the whole paper with news letters.
An^ ritrh* horo wp want to sav a
word to the correspondents about
what they write. We want the news,
but some of our friends have been
sending us matter that is advertising
and not news. The rule is no
notice of an entertainment can be
printed free if the entertainment is
for the purpose of raising money.
You see, we want all the news, but
at the same time, the only things the
newspaper has for sale are subscriptions
and advertising, and if we run
advertising free, we are afraid we
would not last long. So, please don't
write as news anything about any
entertainments or box suppers or
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CITY OF M0N4SIIR TAKEN
ALLIED TROOPS FORCED TUTOXIC
FORCES TO EVACUATE.
Germans Have Forced Mountain Passes
Leading to Wallacliian Plain.
British Make Another Gain.
After having been for months men
without a country, the Serbians are
again to establish their capital on
native soil. Monastir, in. Southern
Serbia, for which the entente forces
have been struggling since the advance
from their base at Saloniki began,
has been evacuated by the German
and Bulgarian forces and occupied
by the French and a considerable
number of Serbs. The French
and Serbians having captured the
crest of hills partly surrounding the
valley town, the Germans found their
position untenable and withdrew, according
to Berlin, to a new position
to the north of Monastir. Unofficial
advices from Saloniki say that a temporary
capital of Serbia (will be immediately
established at Monastir.
With the reoccupation of, Monastir
the railway line from^the entente allied
base at Salonikr now is in entente
hands.
To the east and southeast of Monastir
the French and Serbian troops
continue to make gains in the Cerna
river region against the Teutonic allies,
having captured several towns in
that region.
On the Transylvanian front the
Austro-German armies at almost all
points continue to make progress
against the Russian and Roumanian
forces or to hold them back without
gains when they attack. The latest
reports from Berlin say the Teutonic
allies have forced the narrow mountain
passes leading to the Wallachian
plain of Roumania and on the Danube
front near the junction of Hungary,
Serbia and Roumania, have
reached the Orsova Craiova railroad.
Bucharest reports a Roumanian advance
in the region of Dragoslavle.
From November 1 to November 18
the Austro-Germans are said to have
made prisoners of 189 officers and
19,338 men and to have captured
twenty-six guns, seventy-two machine
guns and seventeen ammunition cars.
Lively infantry and artillery actions
are taking place in the Dobrudja
region near Silistria, on the eastern
bank of the Danube about forty miles
southwest of the Tchernavoda-Constanza
railway.
Bad weather is hampering the operations
on the western ' front in
France but the British nevertheless
have taken twenty additional German
officers and 725 men prisoners in
the Ancre sector, making their total
of prisoners since the 13th of November
6,962. Berlin says that in Saturday's
fighting, which was over ai
front of seven and a half miles, the
British met with a sanguinary reverse
except for insignificant gains southwest
of Serre and near Grandcourt.
A French attack south of Sailly-Saillisel
met with a similar repulse.
Attapkc hv thp Anst.ria.ns in the i
Adige valley and Upper But region
were repulsed and where the Austrians
and Italians fought hand to
hand, the Italians were victorious, according
to the Rome war office.
Death of Mr. Abe Bennett.
Walterboro, Nov. 15.?In the
death of Mr. A. Bennett, which occurred
at his home near Lodge, in
the upper part of the county, Colleton
has lost one of its most prominent
men. Mr. Bennett was a man
of force in the public and business
life of the county, and was the friend
to those in need. The funeral services
were conducted at Carter's Ford
Baptist church, of which Mr. Ben- ;
nett was a member, in the presence ,
of a large concourse of friends and
relatives, with interment in the cemetery
nearby. Mr. Bennett was well
known throughout this section, and
was respected by all with whom he
came in contact. j
He is survived by his widow, who i
was before her marriage, Miss Em- i
ma Fender, and by the following \
children: W. D. Bennet, of Ehrhardt; j
B. R, Bennett and A. B. Bennett, of \
Holly Hill; Mrs. W. H. Saunders, of ,
Walterboro, and Clyde, Pearl, Rach
ell, and Wetson Bennett, of Lodge. ?
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plays the object of which is to raise ^
money. If the entertainments are
free, all good and well, write a no- t
tice about it, but if not free, the rate ,
is one cent a word. If any of our s
readers want to give the corrospond
ents such items, they can hand the
correspondent the one cent per word, <
and we feel sure the correspondent i
will take pleasure in sending it in ]
to us. i
TROOPS REMAIN AT ANDERSON.
May Be Retained at Gluck and Equinox
Until Legislature Meets.
Anderson, Nov. 19.?A crowd of
more than 3,000 persons gathered on
Cater athletic field this afternoon to
witness the parade of the artillery
corps. All five companies participated.
Major Robinson and all commissioned
officers of the corps were entertained
by General Manager Ligon,
of the Gluck and Equinox mills, at
dinner today. A number of business
men of the city were also among the
guests. A smoker banquet for the
men of the companies is being planned
for one night during the first
port of the week.
Nothing definite has been decided
. <
on about sending three companies
back to their homes. Major Robertson
was in touch with Governor Man.
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ning today over the telephone and
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the governor stated that he would
reach a decision early tomorrow. In
his conversation with the governor
Major Robertson expressed it as his
opinion that it would be necessary to
retain some soldiers at the Equinox
and Gluck mills until the legislature
convenes. The people of the city
who are in close touch with conditions
concur in this opinion, and it is
understood that Governor Manning
intends to keep some soldiers here
until all chances of trouble in the future
as far as possible are averted.
CONTRACTS FOR DESTROYERS.
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No Awards Yet Made on Bids for
Scout Cruisers and Submarines.
/
Washington, Nov. 18.?Navy department
officials are preparing to
use at the Philadelphia, Norfolk and
Bremerton yards the $6,000,000 provided
by congress for the equipment
of navy yards for ship construction.
The Philadelphia yard will get the
bulk of the appropriation.
Awards for fourteen destroyers
were announced today, but the contracts
for four battleships and two
destroyers still are pending in the
department, in addition to the four
scout cruisers and twenty-nine submarines,
for which bids has been received.
Bids for the four battle
cruisers will be opened December 6,
and when all of them have been
placed a decision will be made as to
improvements at each of the three
designated yards.
Officials now believe the entire
building programme for next year
will be placed with private builders.
Eight of the destroyers awarded today
will be built by the Fore River
Shipbuilding company and six by the
Union Iron Works, San Francisco. ,
With the prospect that congress
will authorize three more battleships
and one battle cruiser before March ^ v
4, however, department officials believe
the navy yards may have to
help out with construction work on
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the capital ships, Secretary Daniels,
it is understood, will recommend the
construction of fifteen submarines,
ten destroyers and several auxiliaries
in the 1918 programme.
"THE GIRL WHO SMILES."
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At Academy of Music, Orangeburg,
S. C., Nov. 28.
Those two painstaking artists,
Bert Leigh and Hazele Burgess, who
were so successful in "45 Minutes
from Broadway/' and "The Little
Millionaire," are soon to be with us
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in a new musical comedy by Paul
Herve and Jean Briquet, entitled
"The Girl Who Smiles." It was emi?
- ?^ L c 4V?/v Anof r?noliftr o t
<X lilt U1 liiU ill oc 4 uamj uv
the Longaere Theatre, New York,
where it ran for six months. Miss
Burgess will sing the leading role,
and Bert Leigh will have the part of
a most likeable, but extremely facetious
chef. In the stellar role Miss
Burgess is delightful in quite a number
of charming songs in which the
piece abounds. The most striking is
"Teach Me to Smile," and to say that
it appeals directly to her hearers is
to put it mildly. The music all
through runs to waltzes, and sends
the people away whistling its catchy
airs. The cast is a splendid one, and
tne cnorus is not oniy exiremeiy
comely but the singing of the young
i ft
women and men is most commendable.
The costumes are dainty and
most artistic design, and the entire
production is carried by the
company. The date is Nov. 28. Seats
sale 3* Doyle's Drug Store Friday,
\Tov. 24. Prices $1.50, $1.00, 75c,
>0c.?adv.
To protect baggage as it is unload
id at railroad stations, movable platforms
have been designed, made of
3ieces of old air brake hose* fastened
icross resilient wooden strips.
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